Mounting points for pannier frame

[oilyrag]

Rob...

I have added 4 more pictures of the bike, some with the panniers now attached, and also showing the rear bottom mount point for the carrier.  I have also bought a couple of straps, though I am not happy with the one in the picture and will replace it with something more substantial before I load the bike up.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/xxaloxx/bmw_panniers.html

Regards

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

I am perplexed.

Just be sure of your engineering before you go off with a load!

[Semper Gumby]

Hi oilyrag,

OOOOOgh.  I wonder if those would fit my 1971 OIF BSA Thunderbolt.  Would you be interested in selling them?  Do you have any pictures?  

PM me if interested.

OIC you are spacing your panniers farther away from the seat!  Yes.  The stock setup prevents opening the seat unless the pannier is removed!  I have long ago thrown away the Krausers and put on a set of Givi's.  Much better.  I had to relocate the turnsignal bar aft under the tail rack to clear the Givi bags though.

Bill Gould
Atlanta GA.

[oilyrag]

"I wonder if those would fit my 1971 OIF BSA Thunderbolt.  Would you be interested in selling them?  Do you have any pictures?"

Well they are up in the loft at the moment, I would need to dig my ladders out to get at them. I will see if I can get at them this weekend and post some pictures of them.

Though I think the postage from the UK to USA would make them very expensive....  if I was prepared to sell :-)  
You might not like the look of them anyway, they have a dinky lock on them, but the keys have long since departed, plain but functional is how I would describe them.  They have served me well in the past.

Regards

[Semper Gumby]

Your spacer set up looks fine to me.  I suspect a lot of the vertical stress is located on the attach points on the foot peg stay and the shock mount.  I think the third point is more for side to side stability than anything.  Give it a try and see if anything breaks.  You can always weld up later.  I am carrying a lot more than you are on your panniers.  I have two Givi E41's and a Givi E52 topcase and it has served me well.  I have had to reinforce the forward bottom mounts (the tube from the foot stay to the pannier rectangle frame where the joint cracked.  I also had to add tubing from the bottom aft of the pannier rectangle to the bottom aft of the luggage rack to support the top case.  At one point I had a three gallon aux tank on the top of the top case for my IBA 50cc.  Keep an eye on the joints and look for cracks as you increase your load.

[welshman]

I can't resist sticking my oar in about this pannier situation. The jubilee clip is not a good idea and after looking at your photo's I can't convince myself that the frames match your sub-frame although they seem similar to mine on my '85 model which has the claw type locks.The panniers appear to me to be the old "classic" style and I wonder if that may be the key to the problem.Is it possible to borrow a more recent box to try on your frames or get them measured up to check the respective depths?